Joseph Conrad - The World at War

1914

• June28Archduke Franz Ferdinand is shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist.
• August1Germany declares war on Russia.
• August3Germany declares war on France.
• August4Germany invades neutral Belgium.
• August5England declares war on Germany; Canada goes to war.
• September4Approximately 32,000 Canadian men assemble at Valcartier in Quebec.
• October14First contingent Canadian Expeditionary Force docks in England.
• December21Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the first Canadian unitcommitted to battle in the Great War, joins British troops.

1915

• April22Battle of Ypres; Germans deploy poison gas against French.
• April24Battle of St. Julien; Germans deploy poison gas against Canadian troops;Canadian troops hold the line.
• May3Lt. Col. John McCrae of the Canadian Expeditionary Force composes InFlanders Fields.
• May18Battle of Festubert.
• November16Canadians launch their first trench raid at Rivire Douve.

1916

• April6Battle of St. Eloi Craters.
• June2Battle of Mont Sorrel (Battle of Hill 62); Major General Mercer killed.
• September15Battle of Flers-Courcelette; British first to use tank and the rollingbarrage against opposing forces.
• September26Battle of Thiepval Ridge.

1917

• April9Battle of Vimy Ridge.
• April12Canadians take thousands of prisoners of war and are victorious at VimyRidge.
• June11Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden introduces a Military Service Bill.
• August15Battle for Hill 70; Germans deploy mustard gas against Canadians.
• October26Battle of Passchendaele (or, Third Battle of Ypres).
• August29Conscription becomes law in Canada.
• November20Battle of Cambrai.

1918

• April1Captain Roy Brown helps shoot down the Red Baron.
• August8Battle of Amiens (Third Battle of Picardy) and Canada's Hundred Daysoffensive begins.
• August26Battle of the Scarpe.
• September2Battle of the Drocourt-Quant Line.
• September27Battle of the Canal du Nord.
• November2Canadian Corps captures the town of Valenciennes in the last major battle ofthe Great War.
• November11, 10:58 a.m.Private George Price of the 28th Battalion is killed by asniper.
• November11, 11 a.m.Armistice comes into effect.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

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The Shot Heard Around the World
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

New York Times. June 29, 1914, page 1.

HEIR TO AUSTRIAS THRONE IS SLAIN WITH HIS WIFE BY A BOSNIANYOUTH TO AVENGE SEIZURE OF HIS COUNTRY

Francis Ferdinand Shot During State Visit to Sarajevo.

Two Attacks in a Day

Archduke Saves His Life First Time by Knocking Aside a Bomb Hurled at Auto

Slain in Second Attempt

Lad Dashes at Car as the Royal Couple Return from Town Hall and Kills Both of Them

Laid to a Servian Plot

Heir Warned Not to Go to Bosnia, Where Populace Met Him with Servian Flags

Aged Emperor is Stricken

Shock of Tragedy Prostrates Francis JosephYoung Assassin Proud of His Crime

Newspaper illustration of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand from1914

Special cable to the New York Times

Sarajevo,Bosnia, June 28. (By courtesy of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse.)ArchdukeFrancis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, theDuchess of Hohenberg, were shot and killed by a Bosnian student here today. Thefatal shooting was the second attempt upon the lives of the couple during theday, and is believed to have been the result of a political conspiracy.

Thismorning, as Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Duchess were driving to areception at the Town Hall a bomb was thrown at their motor car. The Archdukepushed it off with his arm.

The bombdid not explode until after the Archdukes car had passed on, and the occupantsof the next car, Count von Boos-Waldeck and Col. Morizzi, the Archdukes aidede camp, were slightly injured. Among the spectators, six persons were more orless seriously hurt.

The authorof the attempt at assassination was a compositor named Gabrinovics, who comesfrom Trebinje.

After theattempt upon his life the Archduke ordered his car to halt, and after he foundout what had happened he drove to the Town Hall, where the Town Councillors,with the Mayor at their head, awaited him. The Mayor was about to begin hisaddress of welcome, when the Archduke interrupted him angrily, saying:

Herr Brgermeister,it is perfectly outrageous! We have come to Sarajevo on a visit and have had abomb thrown at us.

TheArchduke paused a moment, then said: Now you may go on.

Thereuponthe Mayor delivered his address and the Archduke made a suitable reply.

The publicby this time had heard of the bomb attempt, and burst into the hall with loudcries of Zivio! the Slav word for hurrah.